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To react or not?: fiscal policy, volatility and welfare in the EU-3

Malley, Jim; Philippopoulos, Apostolis; Woitek, Ulrich - 2007

implications of countercyclical fiscal policy for France, Germany and the UK. The model incorporates real wage rigidity which is …

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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US?: selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries

Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008

of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all …

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How do migrants choose their destination country?: an analysis of institutional determinants

Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008

micro-data for France, Germany, the UK and the US, we study their decisions to migrate to one of the four countries using a …

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The application of the capability approach to high-income OECD countries: A preliminary survey

Volkert, Jürgen; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2011

The goal of this paper is to provide a preliminary overview of empirical Capability Approach (CA) applications for high-income OECD countries. The survey aims at a basis of mutual exchange on relevant CA issues among researchers analyzing well-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA...

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Expectations as reference points: Field evidence from experienced subjects in a competitive, high-stakes environment

Bartling, Björn; Brandes, Leif; Schunk, Daniel - 2012

We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee's assignment of cards,...

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Taxes and the financial structure of German inward FDI

Ramb, Fred; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2004

tax rate of the German affiliate. From our study of a panel of more than 8,000 non-financial affiliates in Germany, we …

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Evaluating the German inventory cycle : using data from the Ifo business survey

Knetsch, Thomas A. - 2004

Inventory fluctuations are an important phenomenon in business cycles. However, the preliminary data on inventory investment as published in the German national accounts are tremendously prone to revision and therefore ill-equipped to diagnose the current stance of the inventory cycle. The Ifo...

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Drifting together or falling apart? : The empirics of regional economic growth in post-unification Germany

Colavecchio, Roberta; Curran, Declan; Funke, Michael - 2005

The objective of this paper is to address the question of convergence across German districts in the first decade after German unification by drawing out and emphasising some stylised facts of regional per capita income dynamics. We achieve this by employing non-parametric techniques which focus...

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Efficient revenue sharing and upper level governments : theory and application to Germany

Büttner, Thiess; Hauptmeier, Sebastian; Schwager, Robert - 2006

in Germany. The results suggest that attempts of state level governments to extract fiscal resources from the local …

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Was Germany ever united?: evidence from intra- and international trade 1885 - 1933

Wolf, Nikolaus - 2008

When did Germany become economically integrated? Within the framework of a gravity model, based on a new data set of … about 40,000 observations on trade flows within and across the borders of Germany over the period 1885-1933, I explore the … internal fragmentation resulted from cultural heterogeneity, from administrative borders within Germany, and from geographical …

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